The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-26
Cables Southern Lecture Tour.


Some o, the North Carolina papers do not
view with favor Mr.. George w. Cables pro-
posed lecture tour through that State. The
Raleigh Ne,Cs and Observer thinks that his
writings show hostility 10 the South, and
attl ibltes this hostility to a desire TO gain
favor at the North. The Asheville Citizen
is Of the opiuion that, having cast his lot
with the North. he would show wisdom by
staying away from the South.
Mr. Cable is not as popular in the South
as he was when, as a resident of New Or
leans, he first began to be known as a writer1
His first stories, published under the
title of "Old Cleole Days" were well re-
ceived throughout the country. His subse-
quent and more pretentious literary work
shows that his reputation as a writer is well
deserved, but much of it appears to have
been intended tosuit Northern readers rather
than to present truthful pictures of South
ern character and affairs 1t may be that
Mr.. Gable is sincere in all that he writes,
and that the charge that he panders to
Northern prejudice for gain is not well
founded. If he is sincere, but mistaken, he
ought to be more jealous in trying to dis.
cover the truth. Being a Southern man
what he writes about the South is accepted
much more readily than if it were written
by Northern man. AS a Southern man
his portrayals of Southern character and
his statements of Southern affairs are ac-
cepted at the North as true, and if they are
not true it is but natural that the Southern
people should feel unkindly towards him.
The Creoles claim that nothing like his
Creole characters can be found among the
Creoles of Louisiana, and it is certain that
some of his statements about the treatment
of colored people in the South have been
shown to be not well founded. The aged
Creole writer of New Orleans, Mr.. Charles
Gayarre is reported to have stated recently
that Mr.. Gable admitted to him that he had
never known intimately any of the Creole
families of New Orleans, and hence cannot
know much about the character or home
life of the Creoles.
In articles discussing the penitentiary sys-
tens of some of the Southern States Mr..
Gable drew comparisons between the SEN
fences imposed upon white convicts and
those upon colored, leaving the impression
that judges dealt much more harshly with
the latter than the former The idea ap-
parently which he wished to bring out was
that the colored people can't get justice in
the South. Several writers, at the time these
articles appeared, pointed out important
particulars in which he was mistaken
Mr.. Gable has left New Orleans and has
located in Massachusetts, town. The sur
roundings there are doubtless very con-
genial to him There is no fault to be found
with him for making his home with people
who sympathize with his views, but he
ought not to expect that the people of the
South, who feel that he has misrepresented
them, and hence done them an injury, will
accord him warm welcome when he comes
among them asking them to patronize him
as lecturer. He will, of course, be ac-
corded courteous treatment, and his reputa-
ton as a writer may secure him fair audi
ences, but it is doubtful if he receives many
evidences of friendship or popularity